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‘Oumuamua
In October 2017, the Pan-STARRs telescope on Haleakala discovered a high-speed object coming from interstellar space passing through our solar system – a first in astronomy. Later determined to be a comet, this unusual object was named ‘Oumuamua, which in Hawaiian means “scout” or “messenger."
October 5, 2018
The hunt for exoplanets (planets outside of our Solar System) is a hot topic in Astronomy and the Maunakea Observatories certainly impacted history with their early […]
October 2, 2018
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our Solar System. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that supports […]
September 22, 2018
Maunakea, Hawaii – Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don’t find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as […]
September 3, 2018
Maunakea, Hawaii – When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of […]
August 6, 2018
Through the use of GRACES – a fiber optic coupling of Gemini-N and CFHT –a star was detected that is moving at an extremely high velocity and […]
August 6, 2018
Keck and CFHT proved what separates real stars from wannabes through their observations of low mass stars and brown dwarfs. The lead astronomer (Trent Dupuy) is […]